Tuesday, August 24, 2010

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
~Stanley Lindquist

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

Monday, August 23, 2010

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.It's the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.” - Anonymous

Well, I am now officially 18 years old. Weird! I feel so old, so "grown up". I hate it! Just kidding, though, actually I just don't like it. (Hate is too strong a word) I have now spent my first birthday at college and my first day of classes here. A weird combo no? Needless to say, I was not very happy about having to do school on MYbirthday. It has been a strange day actually, it does not feel like a birthday AT ALL. My family isn't here, my friends from home aren't here, and I didn't get to eat birthday cake! ;D Bummer, I know. It's weird, I actually forgot today was my birthday! You see, at lunch, I saw some pretty tempting brownies as dessert. I did not allow myself one, thinking only of the numerous calories they contained. If I had realized TODAY was my birthday I would definitely taken one! (and consequently gained 10lbs for the sake of Murphy's Law) It hasn't been too bad of a day though. My RA gave me some flowers! They're very pretty and are on my desk. My Mom, Danielle, and Skylar left me cards and a present, which was thoughtful of them. I also got many "Happy Birthday"s. I'm just INCREDIBLY homesick and wish I were home having a true birthday party. :( So, anyone wanna bake me a cake? :P

Thursday, August 19, 2010

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ~Elayne Boosler

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money? ~Rita Rudner

Well, I am doing last minute shopping for college today and tomorrow! I'm the bargain hunter for sure! I love sales and thrift shops!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to” -John Ed Pearce
"There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I'm home! After 6 days of being gone, I am once again home. Then again, I'm leaving for college in 5 days... Oh well, it's good to be home while it lasts!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

"For even the Son of Man camenot to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
-Mark 10:45
Jesus came to be a servant. Think about that, the Lord, God in human flesh, came to serve the lowliest of low. It blows my mind.
We don't expect a king to be doing a servant's job. We would never tell a king he should be washing floors or putting away dishes. But Christ, the King of all Kings, came to be a servant to all. He didn't come to be treated as royalty but came to save those that could not save themselves.
Remember John 13? Where Jesus washes His disciples feet? That is the example we should follow. We should be like Christ and present ourselves as a servant and helper.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
1Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" 7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand." 8 Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me." 9Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" 10Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you." 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."
12When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

“Growing Old is Mandatory - Growing Up Is Optional”- Chili DavisToday I was feeling really old. Do you ever feel that way? It's like where did the time go?! I turn 18 in a little more than 2 weeks; which sparked me looking for this quote. I thought it was pretty funny and true.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to earn what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot

Have you ever heard of Jim Elliot? The missionary who was murdered by Auca indians while trying to minister to them. He had an amazing life and testimony. You can learn more by reading "Through Gates of Splendor" by his wife Elisabeth Elliot.